The Ration Ticket

Excerpt from the diary of Jules Flegmon.

22 June . --
Taking reprisals against Lucette, Roquenton bought tickets on the black market for ten thousand francs and is reserving them exclusively for his use. His wife has been in nothingness for ten days already. I think he regrets having been so severe. Loneliness seems to weigh cruelly on him. I find him a changed man, almost unrecognizable.